Patents by Inventor Eric W. Hager

Eric W. Hager has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for removing data traffic from a telephone network
    Patent number: 6434149
    Abstract: A data bypass system for removing data traffic from a public switched telecommunications network designed for carrying voice traffic includes a remote access concentrator for receiving a modulated signal corresponding to the data traffic, demodulating the signal to recover the link layer frames that comprise the data traffic, and tunneling the link layer frames through a data network to a network access controller for extracting compressed data contained within the link layer frames, decompressing the compressed data, performing error correction, performing protocol processing, and transmitting the decompressed data to a data terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Cary D. Jackson, Eric W. Hager, Steven M. Willens